Carrie Fisher Quotes
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I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I've ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction.
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There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.
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Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.
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There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.
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As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
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We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.
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Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long.
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I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.
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It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.
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A lot of the time, I'm just smart enough to be unhappy.
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I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
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I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions
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[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs.
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I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
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The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.
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Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.
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A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.
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There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
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Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.
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Until adolescence I thought I had the best mother in the world. Such a graceful mother. I had this fantasy that I was the wrong daughter.
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I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.
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I went to drama college in England - the Central School of Speech and Drama, in London. I was there for not quite two years, then I got Star Wars.
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One of the great things to pretend is that you're not only alright, you're in great shape. Now to have that come true - I've actually gone on stage depressed and that's worked its magic on me, 'cause if I can convince you that I'm alright, then maybe I can convince me.